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shashwat001
Copper Contributor
May 29, 2021

Get lid open or close state using powershell

I have a home laptop to which I have remote ssh access using Powershell. How can I get whether the lid is opened or close
Windows10
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Harm_Veenstra
MVP
Jan 29, 2022

shashwat001 

 

You can list all currently active displays by using 

Get-CimInstance -Namespace root\wmi -ClassName WmiMonitorBasicDisplayParams

Output:

Then you narrow it down to the one you need, in this case my laptop screen is the one with the instance name containing 'LEN40a9'

 

Get-CimInstance -Namespace root\wmi -ClassName WmiMonitorBasicDisplayParams | Where-Object InstanceName -Match 'LEN40a9'

Then you can determine if it's open or closed by using:

 

if ((Get-CimInstance -Namespace root\wmi -ClassName WmiMonitorBasicDisplayParams | Where-Object InstanceName -Match 'LEN40a9').Active -eq 'True') {
write-host monitor lis is open} else {
write-host Monitor lid is closed
}

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